Anchorage Assembly
Anchorage voters' right to repeal labor law lands in court
The city rejected a referendum that would have asked Anchorage voters whether they wanted to keep the Assembly's March labor law rewrite. The referendum's supporters are now suing the city.
Anchorage Assembly
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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY
Assembly takes up chairman's proposal on public testimony
The Anchorage Assembly took its first look Tuesday at Chairman Ernie Hall's proposal to change how the public gives testimony during hearings, including the chairman or chairwoman's power to extend or cut off testimony.
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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY
Critics of Anchorage labor-law rewrite file new petition seeking a repeal vote
Backers of a proposed referendum to repeal a recently-adopted rewrite of Anchorage's city labor law are trying again after city officials turned down their first attempt.
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ANCHORAGE
Moe concedes: Ernie Hall is the winner of West Anchorage Assembly race
Nick Moe, the write-in candidate for Assembly in West Anchorage, conceded Tuesday that a weekend hand-count of votes in his race showed Ernie Hall, the incumbent, is the winner.
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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY
City rejects a proposed referendum that would repeal just-passed labor law
The city has rejected a proposed referendum petition to repeal AO 37, the ordinance passed in March that rewrites city labor law.
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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY
Unions seek vote to repeal new Anchorage city labor ordinance
Anchorage union leaders are launching a referendum drive to try to kill the city's just-passed rewrite of the city labor law, a spokesman for a coalition of city unions said Wednesday. Just filing the roughly 7,200 required signatures for the referendum with the city clerk's office in a timely ...
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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY
Assembly passes rewrite of city labor laws by slim 6-5 margin
The Anchorage Assembly has narrowly passed a rewrite of city labor laws that tips the balance of power in negotiations with city unions more toward management.
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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY
Sullivan presents revision of labor law rewrite
Mayor Dan Sullivan presented a new version of his proposed rewrite of city labor laws to the Anchorage Assembly at a work session Friday, and the proposal heads to the Assembly Tuesday.
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MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Assembly candidate Q&A: Grade the current Assembly
In the days leading up to the April 2 Anchorage municipal election, we'll be publishing responses from Assembly and School Board candidates to a range of questions.
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MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Unions fighting labor law rewrite pour money into two Assembly campaigns
Union groups donated $11,000 to two Anchorage Assembly races in the wake of Mayor Dan Sullivan's proposed labor-law rewrite, state campaign finance reports show.
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ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY
Sullivan turns down unions' offer to freeze wages if new labor law is delayed
Mayor Dan Sullivan has sent city union leaders a letter turning down the unions' offer to take wage freezes for a year if the administration would "indefinitely table" the mayor's proposal to rewrite city labor law, which would reduce the power of the unions.

